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Mainland exposes Taiwan authority s nature of seeking independence
1 2021-05-12 08:12:46Xinhua
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A mainland spokesperson Tuesday slammed Taiwan s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for its latest attempt to hype up the Taiwan independence narrative in the international community.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, pushed back against the DPP authority in response to a query on Tsai Ing-wen s remarks at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2021.
Swindling the international community under the guise of democracy has been the DPP authority s stock-in-trade, said Zhu, noting the nature of the move is to seek Taiwan independence.
2021-05-11 16:30:22 GMT2021-05-12 00:30:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) A mainland spokesperson Tuesday slammed Taiwan s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for its latest attempt to hype up the Taiwan independence narrative in the international community.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, pushed back against the DPP authority in response to a query on Tsai Ing-wen s remarks at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2021.
Swindling the international community under the guise of democracy has been the DPP authority s stock-in-trade, said Zhu, noting the nature of the move is to seek Taiwan independence.
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The US Capitol in Washington D.C. in 2006. Image: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA
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